{"id":42,"date":"2007-07-09T13:39:41","date_gmt":"2007-07-09T04:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diamondsandopals.com\/blog\/is-buying-a-diamond-online-absurd\/"},"modified":"2018-08-30T15:40:20","modified_gmt":"2018-08-30T07:40:20","slug":"is-buying-a-diamond-online-absurd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/is-buying-a-diamond-online-absurd\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Buying A Diamond Online Absurd?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the past two months there have been a couple of reports on Today Tonight &#8211; one about buying diamonds online and one about buying meat.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The story about buying meat from a sale yard, I thought was absurd. In fact, The Chaser did a comedy skit about it a few weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/3sMhIsypxBY\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><ibed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><\/ibed><\/object><\/center>But is buying a diamond online as absurd as buying meat from a sale yard?<\/p>\n<p>A quick comparison reveals that they both allow you to save a lot of money, but in both instances you forgo the traditional service of a jeweller or butcher in order to make the savings.<\/p>\n<p>However, when buying diamonds online, you typically:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Get a GIA, AGS or HRD certificate.<\/li>\n<li>Get a better quality diamond.<\/li>\n<li>Are able to return the diamond if you don&#8217;t like it or change your mind.<\/li>\n<li>Get full disclosure including photos and cut analysis through some merchants.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Therefore, buying a diamond online doesn&#8217;t seem to be absurd as it seems. The problem however lies in the fact that buying a diamond or engagement ring is still a very personal decision, hence despite all the advantages of buying online, the majority still purchase from a brick and mortar jeweller.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the past two months there have been a couple of reports on Today Tonight &#8211; one about buying diamonds online and one about buying meat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-buying-advice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":365,"href":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions\/365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}